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======================================================= [ SE1 Direct ] http://www.SE1direct.co.uk Issue 89 | 8 July 2002 ======================================================= >> I N T H I S B U L L E T I N ======================================================= * What's on this week * PROMOTION: Blue Print Cafe Design Museum deal * SE1 news, features & reviews from London-SE1.co.uk * PROMOTION: 2-for-1 Moulin Rouge at the IMAX * SE1 news from around the Web * In the London SE1 Forum ======================================================= [ What's on this week ] LITTLE DORRIT PARK SUMMER PARTY Wednesday 10 July 3-6pm in Little Dorrit Park, off Borough High Street; free Stalls, African drummers, workshops. Event aimed at primary school children. http://www.bost.org.uk FRIENDS OF ARCHBISHOPS PARK AGM Wednesday 10 July 7pm, China Walk Tenants Hall, Lambeth Walk Get involved with this dynamic new group which campaigns to protect and enhance the largest green space in SE1. If you make use of the park, join the Friends to make sure that future developments put park users first! THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL AT SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL Thursday 11 July 7.30pm at Southwark Cathedral; �11 reserved seats from 020 7367 6700 (�8 on the door) A performance by the girls' choirs of Southwark, St Albans, and Norwich Cathedrals. Southwark's Girls' Choir was formed to enrich the Cathedral�s musical heritage and to offer the same opportunity for musical, spiritual and social development which the boy choristers have enjoyed for so long. There are 22 girl choristers who range in age from 9 to 15 receiving a musical education (spanning music from plainsong to the present day) and enabling the Cathedral to have choral services more regularly. http://www.dswark.org/cathedral/jubilee.htm ST GEORGE THE MARTYR BOROUGH HIGH STREET OPEN MORNING Saturday 13 July 11am-2pm at St George the Martyr, Borough High Street Another chance to loo around Dickens' Little Dorrit Church which is trying to raise a further �900,000 for restoration. �2,110,525.08 already raised. Souvenir mugs and pens on sale. http://www.stgeorgethemartyr.co.uk JETTY TO JETTY WALK ON BANKSIDE - MUSEUM OF LONDON Saturday 13 July 11am; �6 (conc �4.50) booking essential 020 7814 5777 Walk along the foreshore from the modern Bankside Pier to the remains of the Victorian London Bridge Steamship Jetty. You'll pass the medieval remains of Winchester Palace and learn about some prehistoric archaeology on the way. http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk WEST SQUARE SUMMER PARTY Saturday 13 July 2-4.30pm in West Square Garden, off St George's Road; free Music, refreshments, sideshows, stalls, children's entertainment and raffle. TRANSPORT ON WATER THAMES BARGE DRIVING RACE Saturday 13 July Starts 12noon at Greenwich - finishes 2-2.30pm at Blackfriars Bridge See the river full of Thames barges and tugs http://www.thames.org.uk/pages/bargerace.htm COMMONWEALTH GAMES BATON VISITS SE1 Sunday 14 July The Baton, which has been carried across Africa and New Zealand, contains the Queen's message to the Commonwealth Games opening in Manchester on 25 July. Runners will bring the Baton over Westminster Bridge at 6.15am. The team is due to follow the South Bank riverside past County Hall and Jubilee Gardens. By 6.40am the Baton reaches Broadwall on the Lambeth boundary where it will be taken by vehicle convoy through Southwark to Tower Bridge. Sensors inside the Baton monitor the runner's pulse rate conveying it into a blade of pulsating light. http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=126 COMMUNITY CELEBRATION - COIN STREET FESTIVAL Sunday 14 July 1-7pm in Bernie Spain Gardens & Oxo Tower Wharf; free Events at the annual South Bank fete include a fashion show, Irish dancing and a graffiti wall on Oxo Tower Wharf. There is basketball on the riverside and a gardening display in Gabriel's Wharf. Young's dray horses give rides along Upper Ground. Music stage all afternoon. Colourful musical community procession at 4pm. http://www.coinstreetfestival.org ------------------------------------------------------- Send us your news and events - [email protected] ======================================================= [ PROMOTION: Blue Print Cafe Design Museum deal ] BLUE PRINT CAFE AND DESIGN MUSEUM OFFER Conran's riverside restaurant is the place to be for a contemporary afternoon's entertainment. Enjoy free entry to the Design Museum summer exhibitions, 'When Philip met Isabella' (July 5 - October 17) and 'Ford Thunderbirds' (July 5 - September 8) and two items from the limited 'all day' menu of salads, terrines, desserts and soft & alcoholic drinks at Blue Print Cafe for a wonderful �15. http://www.se1direct.co.uk/lastminute/?id=110 ------------------------------------------------------- Get your advert to 2400 readers - [email protected] ======================================================= [ SE1 news, features & reviews from London-SE1.co.uk] NEWS: BBC DANIEL DERONDA FILMING ON THE THAMES Those out for a stroll on the Thames Path at Blackfriars Bridge on Sunday afternoon were surprised to see five Thames sailing barges on the river near Oxo Tower Wharf and film cameras on the foreshore working on a TV adaptation of George Eliot's novel http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/238 NEWS: "OLD SOUTHWARK" COMMUNITY COUNCIL NAME DISLIKED Residents of a large chunk of the SE1 area were able to give their opinion on Southwark Council's plans for an "Old Southwark" community council at the Area 1 Forum summer event at Mint Street Park on Sunday. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/237 NEWS: RECYCLING BOXES FOR SE1'S SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS Southwark Council is set to boost recycling opportunities for SE1 residents with a sevenfold expansion of its Blue Box scheme. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/235 FEATURE: FRENCH MARKET AT HAY'S GALLERIA For three days last week Hay's Galleria was transformed into a French food market. Here's our photo gallery... http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/236 NEWS: KEN PLANTS TREE AT CITY HALL Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was outside the new City Hall last week to plant a tree in Potters Fields which adjoins the building. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/234 NEWS: KING'S DELAYS FINAL DECISION ON AGA KHAN PLAN The Council of King's College London last week met to discuss the offer from the Aga Khan to purchase a block of land at St Thomas' Hospital for an Islamic cultural centre. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/233 NEWS: FISH! CALLS IN ADMINISTRATORS SE1-based restaurant chain Fish! is calling in administrators after failing to secure financing for a restructuring plan. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/232 REVIEW: THOMAS GIRTIN AT TATE BRITAIN A major exhibition devoted to Bankside-born Thomas Girtin and featuring SE1 in 1802 opened last week at Tate Britain. http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/231 ------------------------------------------------------- Send us your news and events - [email protected] ======================================================= [ PROMOTION: 2-for-1 Moulin Rouge at the IMAX ] MOULIN ROUGE - 2 FOR ONE AT THE IMAX This weekend Waterloo's BFI London IMAX Cinema is showing MOULIN ROUGE as part of the After Dark series of 35mm films on the giant screen. lastminute.com is offering two tickets for just �7.50 Click on the link below, then check the Cinema section http://www.se1direct.co.uk/lastminute/?id=106 ======================================================= [ SE1 news from around the Web ] Every week we trawl the web for news stories and features on SE1 people, places and organisations. 'Excuse me - but we have to live here' - planners must rethink the way they involve local people in renewal projects, says Michael Ball from the Waterloo Community Development Group (Observer) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=119 Boost for Borough Market in foodie league table (Indy) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=121 Giles Worsley: City Hall is bold but flawed (Telegraph) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=122 Elephant post office latest (South London Press) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=123 Tate Modern pays �22,000 for tin of excrement (Ananova) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=124 Jade: "best thing to happen to Bermondsey" (Ananova) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=125 Property prices in Southwark up 1%, Lambeth 3% (ES) http://www.se1direct.co.uk/quicklink/go.php?id=120 ------------------------------------------------------- Seen an interesting SE1-related article? Let us know by emailing [email protected] and we'll include it ======================================================= [ In the London SE1 Forum ] Some of the topics raised in recent discussions on our forum at http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/ - Start the congestion charging scheme - Stop the congestion charging scheme - Southpoint now called Palestra (aka Orbit House) - Weston Street Tunnel - Tabard Square Development - meeting minutes - Electrician and carpenter needed - London Bridge Tower website ------------------------------------------------------- Got an opinion you would like to share with the rest of SE1? Visit http://www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum/ ======================================================= Enjoyed this issue of SE1 Direct? Know a friend or colleague who'd appreciate our weekly updates? Why not forward this message to them now? 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